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Although this could very well be a picture of me finding a new treasure at a favorite nursery, it's actually an illustration by David Catrow for a children's book called Plantzilla.

Thursday, May 24, 2018

Xera Plants and Contained Exuberance

As we drove up to Xera Plants in Portland, the bright color of this rose caught my eye. One also caught a ride home with me.

Xera had been a great wholesale grower of plants for many years before they opened their own retail space. Luckily, their plants are still carried by other retailers but there's nothing like visiting their own space which is always packed with fabulous plants.

Sweet and tiny Polygonatum humile.

Epimedium x 'Pierre's Purple' has great purple flowers but the color of it's new foliage is also very attractive.

Acanthus syriacus is a gorgeous thing.

Arthropodium candidum 'Maculatum' caught a ride home with Danger along with a brown aeonium. Can't wait to see what she does with them.

About Me

Why Outlaw Gardener? I like to break the rules of good taste, plant placement, and plant hardiness. Also, I have received periodic "love notes" from the city code enforcement officer telling me that my parking strip plants encroach on the city's right-of-way. When expressing my distress over the latest such notice, I exclaimed to my pal Loree (Danger Garden) "I'm an outlaw gardener!" To which she replied,"That would be a good name for a blog."
My first gardens were in Southeast Alaska (zone 3.)I do miss the beauty and community of small-town Alaska but I don't take for granted for a moment how wonderful it is to garden in zone 8.